Section 9: Admission to institution

9. Admission to institution (1) Subject to section 28, an officer may— (a) examine anything which is within or being brought into or taken out of an institution; and R10 – 5 [Issue 3] Reform Institutions Act (b) where he has reason to suspect that a person or a vehicle is carrying a prohibited article or any stolen Government property in use in an institution, stop and search the vehicle or person found— (i) within, or going in or out of, an institution; (ii) close to a detainee, whether inside or outside an institution. (2) The officer in charge or, in his absence, the officer most senior in rank who is on duty in an institution, may— (a) refuse to admit to the institution any person, other than a detainee or an officer, who is not willing to be searched; and (b) order any person, other than a detainee or officer, who is within an institution and who refuses to be searched to leave the institution and, on the person’s refusal, use such force as may be necessary to remove him from the institution. (3) Where, on stopping and searching a vehicle or person, an officer finds a prohibited article or any stolen Government property in use in an institution, he may, without warrant, arrest the person who appears to have charge of the article or property and hand him over to the Police as soon as practicable. (4) Any person who fails to comply with an order under subsection (2) shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 1,000 rupees.